Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source

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    1 year ago

    I couldn’t figure out how to log on here with my other Fediverse creds. Rather than, like, Google or something? I just created new accounts for each instance. I’d say it’s a boon for anonymity, but I used the same username, soooo

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      1 year ago

      As of right now you can’t access the “front page” of each instance, so that would be a valid reason to retain several accounts (among many other perfectly valid reasons).

      How you go to different servers is just by subscribing or following a link to a community hosted on another server. So !Canada@lemmy.ca is hosted on lemmy.ca instead of lemmy.world, but if you follow it on a web browser you might notice it takes you to https://lemmy.world/c/canada@lemmy.ca

      this way you haven’t “left” lemmy.world, lemmy.ca has no access to your credentials but you can make a post or comment there which is shared with lemmy.ca who posts it for everyone who connects to lemmy.ca to see.